The series’ showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich has opened up about her plans to explore Cavill’s character’s disability in the show’s subsequent seasons.
The character continues to suffer chronic pain that leaves him finding tasks such as riding a horse increasingly difficult. Hissrich’s comments were prompted by a viral Twitter thread posted by @Mustangsart who detailed the importance of Geralt’s disability in the books.
Hissrich shared the thread on her own Twitter, adding: “I haven’t stopped thinking about this thread.
In the original books, Geralt sustains an injury that he never fully recovers from.